About the Artist
1933 - Born Addisham, Kent, England
1944 - 1948 Studied at Gravesend School of Art
1948 - Emigrated to Australia
1957 - Began exhibiting nationally
1960 - First solo exhibition
1961 - Included in Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London, First exhibited in Archibald and Wynne Prize
exhibitions
1962 - Australian Painting, Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary,
Tate Gallery, London, Awarded Transfield Art Prize
1963 - Australian Painting Today touring Europe, and Young Painters
Biennale, Paris
1964 - Moved to Sydney
1965 - Moved to Melbourne, Young Australian Painters exhibition,
touring Japan, Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1968 - Focus on Andrew Sibley by Rodney Hall, published by University
of Queensland
1972 - Berliner Kunstler Programme, artist-in-residence, Berlin
1993 - Andrew Sibley: Art on the Fringe of Being by Sasha Grishin,
published by Craftsman House, Sydney
1997-1999 - Head of Painting, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash
University, Caulfield Campus
1999 - Retired from teaching to paint full time
1960-2003 - Over 80 solo exhibitions throughout Australia, in
Germany and USA
1961-1996 - Awarded numerous art prizes including Toowoomba
Chronicle Art Prize, Sydney; The Winemakers’ Prize (shared),
Melbourne; Caltex-Warana Prize, Brisbane; Bathurst City Purchase
Prize; Andrew Fairley Art Prize, Shepparton; Georges Invitation
Award (shared) Melbourne; Gold Coast City Art Prize; Launceston Art
Purchase; Townsville Pacific Festival Art Prize; Dalby Art
Exhibition Prize; Tattersall’s Invitation Landscape Prize, Brisbane
and Stanthorpe Arts Festival Acquisitive Award. |
